Example sentences of "make up a high [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 3.23 below shows that the unskilled and the semi-skilled manual workers made up a higher proportion of those receiving sickness or invalidity benefit than their size as a population group warranted ; the opposite was the case for the non-manual workers ; while the skilled manual workers ’ position as beneficiaries reflected their size as a group among the general population . |
| 2 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 3 | Rate support and local authority influence was expected to improve the often low standards of denominational schools , which made up a high proportion of existing elementary schools . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , due to the higher incidence of physical illness among elderly people , nurses without specialist mental health qualification made up a high proportion of the complement of staff |
| 5 | In both cases the artisans who made up a high proportion of the arrested do not appear in the rate-books , suggesting that they were not among those tradesmen who could be considered part of the " middling sort " . |